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On 17 Dec 98, at 22:20, Ernest wrote: > New front rotors, calipers, rear drums > and cylinders, and all new pads. The master cylinder is only a couple of > years old so I left it in place, along with the old brake lines. After > all that, the car pulls to the left now, and the right front sticks, > when I make a hard stop. One thing that goes wrong with these cars after many years is that the lining of the rubber brake lines seems to partially delaminate and fall into the bore of the line. This clogs up the line and eventually acts like a check valve. Thus fluid can get to the wheel under the pressure of the MC, but it can't, or it just takes a long time, to get back. The easy test for this is to open each bleed valve in turn and see if fluid drips equally fast from each one. You should replace the rubber line leading to any wheel that does not drip, or that drips noticably slower than the others. I suppose a crimp in a steel line could cause the same symptom, so you should run your hand over all these to check for smooth bends, too. It is also possible that you have a caliper that is just sticking on its own. This is a perennial problem with type 3s, but you should not be having it with new calipers. I regularly rebuild sticky calipers to cure this, but if you have a new caliper that is sticking then the place that sold it to you should replace it. If they won't help, you or I can rebuild it. Jim - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/